The vice presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.

There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.

I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honor or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.

To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

Every communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.

A real leader is somebody who can help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.

He may be a patriot for Austria, but the question is whether he is a patriot for me.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.